Turkey - ISIL testimony alleges involvement of Istanbul charity and heroin use.

Turkey - ISIL testimony alleges involvement of Istanbul charity and heroin use. (Bugun).

Testimony from the ongoing trial of the ISIL suspects responsible for last year’s deadly attack in Niğde that killed three and wounded five alleges the involvement of an Istanbul charity in helping fighters and that heroin was used before the deadly attack.

On trial for three aggravated life sentences, the twenty-five year old Benjamin Xu testified how he entered Turkey, and Istanbul charity’s involvement in supporting fundamentalist militants, how he wound up in the ranks of ISIL, how the group prevented his departure when he tried to leave and how he had been given heroin before the deadly attack in Niğde.

Xu explained how he arrived in Istanbul on April 2013 with his father’s Palestinian friend where they met a Turkish contact who worked at an official charity in the middle of Istanbul bearing a light green emblem.
Saying that children were regularly going in and out of the charity, Xu added that while it looked like a regular civic organization, the children there were referred to as “the mujahedeen [Islamic fighters engaged in holy war] of the future.” Read the full story here.

More on the IHH Can be read here.